[1] Gábor András Rado was born in Budapest, Hungary, and emigrated with his family to Britain at the age of eight.
[1] He then joined BBC Radio Leicester working as a reporter, then moved into television news at Thames News before rejoining the BBC at Television Centre, Shepherds Bush as a producer.
He fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq, into the car park below, in an incident apparently unconnected with any military activity.
[citation needed] He met his second wife, Desa, whilst on assignment in Serbia.
[3] The Amnesty Media Awards now include a category in memory of Rado, which recognises a journalist who has been covering human rights issues for less than five years.